Improvement in fire-lighters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MGOALLUM ANDJAOOB HART ZELL, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT ll\l FIRE-LIGHTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,206, dated October 24, 1871,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN MGOALLUM and JACOB HARTZELL, of Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented an Im- 7 proved Fire-Lighter; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same.

The object of our invention is the production of a fire-lighter, which will stand frequent lighting without disintegration.

WVe make our fire-lighter of the following ingredients, in the proportions named: Fire-clay, eight pounds; hardwood ashes, three-quarters pound 5 charcoal, three-quarters pound; sand, half pound; resin, quarter pound; silicic acid, two ounces. These ingredients are made into a hard, a wire being inserted ball, and baked till to serve as a handle.

Witnesses J. J. PARKER,

J. B. ENGLISH. (61) 

